Skillern v. Procunier a-541’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2007
7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 301 (Animal Drug Amendments of 1968) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission v. Holiday Tours, Inc. · Garcia v. Ingram · Ruiz v. Estelle · Chaney v. Heckler
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“then [the TRO] will have prevented a harm the legality of which will be open to serious question under federal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Workman v. Bredesen“will, at worst, simply be delayed but not denied”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Workman v. Bredesen
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.